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Review: Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 'Fu##in' Up' is a raw and electrifying rock anthem that showcases the band's signature gritty sound and Neil Young's impassioned vocals. Released in 1990 as part of the album 'Ragged Glory,' this track is a powerhouse of distortion-drenched guitars and driving rhythms that now lends its name to a live recording from a club in Toronto in 2023. With its catchy hooks and rebellious spirit, Fu##in' Up encapsulates the essence of Young's defiant songwriting style and Crazy Horse's unbridled energy and is a blistering sonic journey that leaves a lasting impression.

Review: Following on from the global success of 1997's Nimrod, pop-punk heroes Green Day would find themselves at a creative impasse, with an earnest desire to eschew much of their pre-established formula and tap into outsider influences. These compositional experiments led to 2000's Warning; an LP considered somewhat of a commercial flop upon release, further strained by a tepid fan response and the full project leaking to Napster three weeks before official date. Time finally catching up to all things as it does, the decades of dust gathering since has led to the album being reappraised throughout the years as one of the finest examples of Billie Joe Armstrong's penmanship; drawing on inspiration from peers in the alternative rock scene such as Nirvana and R.E.M. while citing Bob Dylan's 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home as a vital guide to retooling the Green Day formula to fit a more slacker rock/acoustic folk-punk style. Four years later would see the dawn of American Idiot and Green Day being passed, as it were, from Generation X to the millennials, for an entirely new era and fanbase, marking Warning as the band's last 90s-imbued work and final chapter for many a longtime listener.